KYIV, Dec 5 – The launch of a New Safe Confinement (NSC) built over reactor four of Chornobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) has been postponed from November 2017 until late May 2018, according to a posting on the website of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine, referring to Deputy Head of the NSC project Serhiy Deriuha.

"Deriuha said that now Novarka contracting organization has problems linked to the delay in the implementation of the project. Taking this into account, the launch of the NSC is postponed from late November 2017 to late May 2018," the authority said.

The spent nuclear fuel storage facility two would be launched in the second quarter of 2018.